Julia Seton

“ Back of the knowing and the thing known stands the KNOWER, which is ever ready to flash all wisdom into the human idea centers when the human himself will get the wireless machine of his own mind in perfect accord with the within.
The Illuminati Fast subordinates the flesh, it stills the discordant thinking, it hushes the emotional call and clears the field of consciousness for the flash lights of the higher self. ”

“ Those who feel the chill of this hour creep into the room and over them, will do well to understand that “The river widens as it nears the sea,” and they must fling their minds with no uncertain desire for life, and more and more life. Then when the gray dawn comes in, the watcher can lie down to sleep in peace and the patient turn with new rest to his pillow, and all will rejoice because “he is better in the morning.” ”

“ A new blood stream quickens every state of consciousness, while good, rich, red blood exerts a new influence on body, mind and heart.
Many can readily fast from food and water, but not from sleep. The fast from sleep is to some the greatest discipline. The world is full of “sleepy-heads” who are nodding if they go an hour over their bedtime, and are cross, depressed and out of all harmony if they are obliged to rise before their regular hour. The loss of one night’s sleep makes perfect wrecks and cranks of them, and to have a night of broken rest renders them inert the whole of the next day. ”

“ From these illumined heights we return to the normal vibrations of our every day world, but our soul is filled with the infinite and the joy of things supernal; our wisdom is not the wisdom of the human, but the wisdom born of our intimacy with what men call God. We can trust our human mind in our human affairs to the uttermost because it is God Himself enshrined.
The ILLUMINATI FAST is the short cut of the “Short Cut”, and we may rise to this consciousness and “be as one who walks a pathway fashioned from the stars and sheds his light about him as he goes.” ”

“ It is at the hour of three that egos who are just lingering for the silver cord to break, will slip away. This is the death hour of the planet,–here is where the balance is most often cast, and those who fight death may well take their place at the bedside. Whether they see their ghostly visitor or not, they may know he is there, and only a strong, enduring recognition of life will hold the sick friend or loved one on this side of the veil. ”

“ So, in the wisdom born from on high, the Illuminatus takes his place in his own universal setting, he calls from all the past behind him and from all the future before him, the balance sheet of his own soul. ”

“ Every hour differs from the last. There is a time just between three o’clock and five when all the vibrations of the earth change. It seems the good-bye of the night and the awakening of the day. Day holds night in some subtle, lingering embrace that will not let go until the very gray of the dawn drives the reluctant darkness from the earth. ”

“ It is in this fast that we see the White Light of Reality and can commune, not with the familiar spirits of the earth plane, but with the Heavenly hosts and masters of the spheres, and more than this, through our own transcendency we become aware of the elemental consciousness of nature, the masters, the Solar system and the Solar gods. ”

“ There are many great kingdoms of consciousness awaiting our discovery, and as the higher race mind has found new levels of the physical air and with the aeroplane is carrying his physical body far beyond the level of the path of the common man, and with the submarine is seeking out the plan of the lower kingdoms, just so the Illuminatus rises into the transcendental kingdom of his inner selfhood and discovers there new spheres of intelligence waiting for his conquest. ”

“ One often has to go far on in extended sensation before he will understand how pleasure is pain and pain is pleasure, but there is a spot where they blend, just as there is a change of normal sensation in the body in which one cannot distinguish between heat and cold when applied to the skin. In the old world this is called disease, but in the new world, where men act naturally with so-called abnormal laws, it becomes only a place in consciousness which holds in its unrevealed crypts some revelations of the self, unguessed by the normal dwellers of world of normal sense. ”

“ Empty of normal physical food, alone with the haunting memories of his past of millions of years, facing all the unrevealed adventures of a million years to come, he thinks in eternities as well as in time, and often here the Initiate turns back; the load of revelation is too heavy and he turns shudderingly away, seeking eagerly the fleshpots and the path of evolution, rather than meet himself in the karmic precipitate of his own transmutation short-cut.
The daylight is powerful, beautiful and complete, but it is filled only with objective calls and rampant, active, surging force ”

“ There is a table-land of the self, and those who seek it find it, and those who do not find it can only go on pushing themselves into a fuller realization and a higher coordination until, in some inspired moment, they too will plunge headlong into a new world of beauty and delight. ”

“ The one who is taking the fast for the first time cannot expect to take the same kind of fast as those who have done the fast for several months or years. After we have established the habit of fasting, we can go as far as we like in experimenting with occult laws; but in the beginning we should take the Novitiate instructions and follow them faithfully; through these we reach the point of mental and psychical endurance and discipline which enables us to take up the Initiates’ fast or the fast of the Illuminati. ”

“ It is induced action on every plane, and that thing which does not move into radiant life it kills by the force of its own surging rays.
The moonlight, starlight and midnight are the great receptive forces and in their passive action something falls like a soft mantle over the tired life of the world,–no work at night can take on the wear and tear of the day to those who are in harmony with the forces of the hours. ”

“ After one has taken many fasts, our several bodies become accustomed to the new action and reaction, and the new demands made upon them cannot throw them out of harmony or allow them to over-intensify in any of their sensations.
The Illuminati Fast is fast from food, water, emotional stimulus (sex) and sleep.
There are many who learn to fast from food more easily than from drink or sleep. It is as important to fast from drinking as it is to fast from food. All the fluids of the body must be withdrawn and the blood current depleted as far as possible. ”

“ There is never anything gained by straining for revelation.
Two days and nights is the limit for the Novitiate of the spiritual discipline; after that, sleep and eat to your heart’s content. The Illuminati fast should come at the end of the ten-day fast. If it is taken alone without preparation, it will not do the work that is done at the close of an ordinary fast. Eat at night on the eighth day and then neither eat, sleep nor drink until twelve or three o’clock the morning of the eleventh day. Twelve o’clock is for those who feel unable to go farther. ”

“ When taking the Illuminati Fast, never take more than two days and nights at first; when taking the simple fast for illumination and prophecy it is well to begin with one night with out sleep; after a while, if this leaves you normal, you may take two nights, only the real mystic can take three nights. ”

“ No one really needs to die if he deeply cares to live, but it takes a conscious choice of the ego-man to extend his own life orbit, and, with this, a strong centralizing power on this side of the veil. ”

“ In the olden days the masters used to bleed the patients, understanding even then that the life of the body is in the blood and that a new blood current would bring about great changes in the body, and also that the blood current is the carrier of poisonous debris, and the serum of the blood is often only a stagnate pool of substance, breeding disease in the body, as a stagnant, malaria-laden pool of water poisons the air. ”

“ The world is only a mirror in which is reflected the other worlds and their inhabitants, and when we are transcendental enough we see the reflected worlds of many universes and take our place, a whirling center of divine intelligence, in accord with the mighty master minds. ”

“ There are seven bodies, with their own existing states of consciousness, which are at all times in action in the physical one, and when one fasts from sleep he intensifies the second, or astral body, and through this he can register all the wisdom of the Akashic records of his physical brain.
One part of the brain is for registration–a form of thought higher than mental thinking. In this part of mind one does not think–the thoughts think him. His own mind is a receiving radio center and not a generator of thought force ”

“ Sometimes the bodily senses become a thousand times more acute, but this acuteness only serves as a springboard for the higher bodies; the mind then becomes equally alert, all five senses over-intensified, the emotions quickened, until joy can be so intense it almost becomes pain ”

“ Fasting, breathing, meditation, concentration, and sleepnessness, this is the discipline whereby the race man opens the doors to higher power and perfected perception. “He who puts his hand to the plow and turns back, is not fit for the kingdom of God,” the olden mystics said. ”

“ When the infected blood was spilled, the blood current rebuilt itself and bleeding was a short cut to regeneration, sometimes to reincarnation as it was, like many of the old methods, too strenuous a process for the already depleted patient, and it is much too strenuous for the soft consciousness of this day and age. ”